The dataset contains details on flags in terms of quantitative and categorical
variables, bars
, stripes
, colours
, red
,
green
, blue
, gold
, white
, black
,
orange
, mainhue
, circles
, crosses
, saltires
,
quarters
, sunstars
, crescent
, triangle
, icon
,
animate
, text
, topleft
, botright
.
The dataset also contains additional variables, landmass
, zone
, area
, population
, language
and religion
, that can be used for interpreting the clusters once they are found.